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{{a|record review|}}I wonder what [[David Bowie]] was referring to when he said “[[Never Let Me Down]]”: if it was “the old commercial and artistic judgment” then he was surely mistaken. Since he hopped in the sell-out Ferrari and burned off the competition in 1983, it was hardly trouble free motoring for Bromley's favourite son, and ''[[Never Let Me Down]]'' was when the head gasket blew. | {{a|record review| | ||
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}}I wonder what [[David Bowie]] was referring to when he said “[[Never Let Me Down]]”: if it was “the old commercial and artistic judgment” then he was surely mistaken. Since he hopped in the sell-out Ferrari and burned off the competition in 1983, it was hardly trouble free motoring for Bromley's favourite son, and ''[[Never Let Me Down]]'' was when the head gasket blew. | |||
The conventional wisdom is that Bowie’s mid-to-late seventies were a wasteland of cocaine, paranoia and Kirlian photography, and that by 1983 he had exorcised his demons cleaned up, sobered up, and is gravest indulgences was peroxide, spray tan and skiing. The quid pro quo was an inverted artistic arc: The albums of the seventies got progressively more astounding. It would follow then that a strict regime of health-food and exercise was hardly going to deliver ''Heroes II''. And nor did it. | The conventional wisdom is that Bowie’s mid-to-late seventies were a wasteland of cocaine, paranoia and Kirlian photography, and that by 1983 he had exorcised his demons cleaned up, sobered up, and is gravest indulgences was peroxide, spray tan and skiing. The quid pro quo was an inverted artistic arc: The albums of the seventies got progressively more astounding. It would follow then that a strict regime of health-food and exercise was hardly going to deliver ''Heroes II''. And nor did it. | ||
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But, silk purse out of sow's ear, and all that. | But, silk purse out of sow's ear, and all that. | ||
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